An American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization. – Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
– Maya Angelou
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
Effective action is always unjust. – Maya Angelou
If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. – Maya Angelou
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives meaning. – Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. – Maya Angelou
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. – Maya Angelou
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. – Maya Angelou
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. – Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help. – Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. – Maya Angelou
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. – Maya Angelou
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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